Top 10 Shitty Shatner Movies

Mike / August 21st, 2010

Video description by Mike Matei:
William Shatner has been known to lift the presence of some bad movies. Here’s Cinemassacre’s Top 10 picks of movies that we wouldn’t give a damn about, had it not been for the Shat! Watch this video on Blip

Hey Night of the Spiders is better than Arachnophobia. I Like the gremlin on the wing but I never really watched that spirits 37,000 feet movie.
Airplane II is one of my favorite movies with Shatner.
More Useless Knowledge Even one of the blinking Airplane II lights was used in Star Trek before, behind Shatner with the red lights going back and forth. BTW That same light was also in Wrath of Kahn for a few frames. It is one of the most used movie props.

Is that Borgnine? I think I should see if I could get that Devil’s Rain movie.

Did they get DeForest Kellly into that Shatner movie? I mean he’s been doing Westerns so much longer.

I’ve always felt Big Bad Mama was the inspiration for the Beagle Boys in Duck Tales but Disney didn’t want to let them have girls being criminals with Ma Beagle. But there were some similarities when Webby spends some time with the gang.

Someone argued with me that Impulse was a Jack Nichelson movie.

I never heard of Incubus.

Great roundup and you added quite a few movies I either wish I had or now have to try to track down and at least see if not collect.

I’m only interested in The Devil’s Rain because by the looks of it, it looks awesome! Probably falls somewhere between The Satanic Rites of Dracula and To the Devil…A Daughter. (Both produced by Hammer Films and Starring Christopher Lee)

After a second viewing, I suddenly realized that the guy in the No.9 movie was trying to say ‘stuff’ instead of ‘shit’ reminds me of Shatner’s upcoming show based on the popular Twitter account S@!t My Dad Says. I don’t know if the network will use its original title or something different like Stuff My Dad Says.

Why is someone who doesn’t know who William Shatner is watching a video about him and then complaining about it? Also, has he ever heard of Santa? Mickey Mouse? Hitler? Barack Obama? Shatner is as universally recognizable as any of these.

hey, weird or not, some people don’t know about some people no matter how famous they get. hell, i sometimes can’t identify some of my favorite actors in roles they play, but that’s more attributable to their talent and my adhd. many of you have probably never heard of KMFDM, one of my favorite industrial bands, and they’re famous from movie soundtracks to rock fans.

The Devil’s Rain! I love that movie. I first saw it in 1996 when I worked at Blockbuster, and now I have it on DVD. There are so many awesome Shatner lines. The satanic priest is played by Ernest Borgnine, and it also co-stars a young Tom Skerritt. I think he plays Shatner’s brother.

Also, Anton LaVey, the guy who wrote the Satanic Bible, oversaw all the satanic ritual scenes. He has a cameo during the scene where Borgnine actually turns into a goat.

Classic Shatner in this movie, definitely a must-see. Oh, and the tagline on the VHS box made no sense at all:

I remembered The Devil’s Rain. I saw it on TV once was at the part where everybody started melting. Did not see Shatner, maybe cause all I saw was Ernest Borgnine as a devil worshiper. Hard for me to see him as a devil worshiper.

Sorry James. I’d love to watch your video, but Blip’s new mission in life seems to be making their videos as unwatchable as possible. Every change they make makes it worse. Now my fucking BROWSER crashes whenever their videos freeze. I don’t get this crap with youtube, bing, or google vids. Hell, I’ve had better video success with porn.

Blip has failed to get it’s shit together for over a month and a half. Now it’s just a mess.

@ Fantasy Forest – I’m not 100% on this, but I think I first saw The Devil’s Rain on Joe Bob’s MonsterVision late night show. The reason I think that is because I recall a full description of how the special effects were very much ahead of their time. Anyway, I showed the movie to a few friends, and they loved it. We have watched it every Halloween for the last fifteen years. And that’s saying a lot since we all live in different states.

Great top, really funny. But using esperanto is an original way to
make a movie even if Shatner don’t speak it. I never see movies in
my own language, I rather use subtiltles which is cool coz I wanna respect the intensity of a dialogue and the origin of the film.

Great video. I kept waiting for Incubus to come up, glad to see it got the number one spot. I saw the movie on DVD a few years ago. There were a couple of scenes in there that were creepy and I always had a thing for no budget horror films from the 60′s. Unfortunately where Night of the Living Dead and Carnival of Souls succeed, Incubus fails.

Cool to see a Roger Corman movie in there. Not only did he work with legends like Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff but he helped launch some major careers. Martin Scorsese, Robert DeNiro, Francis Ford Coppola and Jack Nickleson all got their start with Roger Corman. I’d love to see a video about Corman. He made some really crappy movies but also some pretty good ones. The Terror and The Last Woman on Earth are two of my favorites.

Airplane II:The Sequel, You know I think James should do a list of the Top 10 Parody or Spoof films, if he does though I will consider him to be not quite right in the head if he 1.puts any film my Jason Friedburg and Aaron Seltzer on the list and 2. doesn’t put either Airplane or one of Mel Brooks’ films at the top.

OMG!!!! I remember this one!! This was such a weird movie, mainly because it was impossible to imagine Andy Griffith as a bad guy…… and why does his gang, consisting of Greg Bradys’ dad, Marjoe Gortner, and Shatner all wear Star Trek shirts???

…… on a side note. My older brother lives near Manteo, N.C.

The home of Andy Griffith. Everybody down there, pretty much sees him around town, and it’s a normal thing. (Hey, there’s Andy Griffith!!) Anyway, my brother reached the age of 50, and decided to see his doctor, because,,, that’s what you do at that age, and the doctor needs to stick his finger,,, somewhere. While my brother was waiting for his turn,,,,, Andy Griffith came walking out. Then the Dr. told my brother it was his “turn”. My brother asked the Dr. ,, “Are you gonna use the same finger on me, that you just used on Andy Griffith?” The Dr. replied,,,”Indeed, I am.” He called me that night.

It’s true, Incubus is pretty freakin’ crazy, but i like it. i tend to like avant garde stuff, so there’s that. the DVD for Incubus also has Shatner commentary which is great.

i’m somewhat convinced that Shatner is not really a bad actor at all. i think the whole thing is an art hoax, perpetrated by a guy who got his start in avant garde theatre. there’s no way he’s so delusional as to think that his spoken word albums and such are “good”. he’s totally in on it.

You could have mentioned the new priceline.com commercial. They usually have Shatner in it, but in this one he appears with his “evil twin”!!!
Lol, I guess that seeing two Shatners on screen is a tradition that doesn’t die.

I feel sorry for those spiders. The terror they induce is funny considering that they look so passive, just milling about oblivious to the danger of being flung across a room, blown up, shot at etc. Saying that, I am scared of spiders – good job I don’t own a gun.

btw, i’ve got a very strong feeling that i’ve read or heard something about the egg sucking and frog holding thing. I dont remember where i read or heard about it but i think i remember its some sort of superstition for guarding against satan or evil spirits and shit (like duh… i know). thing is, i just did a quick search on google and i didnt find anything.

anyway, i dont think its the filmmakers inspiration or just random, i think its a pretty classic superstition, just not well known.

Great video but why the trash on ‘The Devils Rain’ … this is an excellent and unique movie that seriously pushed the envelope on satanic worship along the lines of “The Devil Rides Out” with Christopher Lee.

As a b movie fanatic this was my only real problem with the list. Great job and continue the amazing work.

Im going to watch number one (i already forgot what its called, lol) and Devils Rain, because that looks interesting, and Impulse, because he plays the perfect manic with an impulse control problem, as youve stated.

I actually read the novelization of Kingdom of the Spiders sometime around the fourth or fifth grade. I can remember thinking to myself “Damn, I bet this is the greatest movie ever made!” Boy was I wrong.

O.K. First of all, I think I’ve actually seen about half of these films, and yes,,, they’re all pretty horrible. I’m older than most of the folks on this site, and I remember seeing Star Trek, when it was on prime time, when I was a kid. I loved Shatner for his work on that show, and on Twilight Zone. He disappeared for awhile after that, then started showing up in a lot of lousy movies in the 70′s. Most of which I saw at the local Drive in Movies. I remember seeing The Devils’ Rain at the drive in, and, I dunno,,? It was crummy, and kinda sick. Very much like a Kenneth Anger film. Disturbing, at best. I also remember seeing a movie starring Shatner called R.I.P. somewhere around 1974, which sucked too, but I cannot find any reference to it on the web. It was horrible, and I figured it would definitely be in James’ top 10. Hmmm? Weird. I never saw Shatners’ Incubus, but I remember another film called Incubus in the 70′s that starred a very young Sharon Stone. It reminded me of the Devils’ Rain. Same kinda feel.

But definitely,, hands down,, the goofiest, most horrible, embarrassing, ever performance by William Shatner, would be this…..